More LagMatch Goodness

Valve has delivered a nice little present for those of you with Half-Life 2 via Steam today. It's a new Half-Life 2 DeathMatch map and two new weapons. The stun stick that the combine soldiers smacked you around with in the first game and the SLAM which is a nice plantable trip mine. You can throw them into areas and trigger them with a trigger or attach them to walls and use them as tripwires. Tweaks were also made to the SDK and some other pieces of the game.

The net code hasn't been touched so playing HL2DM online is still laggy as it ever was but the game is hella-fun for LAN parties.

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Source SDK, and Source Engine updates are available and will be applied automatically when Steam is restarted. The changes include: